Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an important or influential person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb at a great altitude
- noun an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
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Examples
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Júlia Titz de Rezende , chairwoman of a community group that opposes the monorails, says the elevated track will be visually damaging to the landscape and potentially noisy, and that "it would be difficult to rescue passengers if there was any problem on the high-up tracks."
Has the Monorail's Future Finally Arrived? Paulo Trevisani 2011
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Even before I see the high-up slices that include her chest tubes, I know that it is Grace.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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Mrs. Tamarack had taught most of the big-name televangelists, worked with a high-up politician or two.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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I read today about Thermal Cities, London, a gallery of images of London from space, the air, or just from some high-up building.
Websites Maxine 2009
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'Contracts for difference' will allow clean technologies - which often have high-up front and low long-run costs - to compete fairly against fossil fuels.
Chris Huhne: Electricity Market Reform: Keeping the Lights on in the Cheapest, Cleanest Way Chris Huhne 2011
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I actually think it very possible that The Times was obeying orders from somewhere very high-up.
Where Were You When You Heard About NightJack? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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A thick antique wood ladder sits in the middle of Ms. Savage's sterile white kitchen; she needs it to help her reach high-up shelves and leaves it out as part of the décor.
A Gossip Girl's Main Stage Lauren A.E. Schuker 2012
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Ms. Savage uses it to reach high-up shelves and leaves it out as part of the décor.
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Even famously unsuccessful character Cut My Own Throat Dibbler would be too high-up for this street level.
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My cousin was a lifetime high-up foreign service official married to a lifetime CIA employee.
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